Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Thursday, January 18, 2007

The Academic Road Trip

Jason Teutsch is an Indiana Math Ph.D. student who has been working
with me via the CIC Traveling Scholars
program. Tomorrow he defends his thesis so today I'm
driving Jason and another faculty member and graduate student down to
Bloomington. Road Trip!

In graduate school we took these trips quite often. Many conferences
meet in the Northeast and we would pile into cars and drive out. A
good chance to bond with your fellow students.

Fewer conference meet in the Midwest and in Chicago you tend to fly to
travel. But we do have the occasional reason to take the long drive.
We will be in a closed environment with no internet (assuming everyone
stays off their cell phones). We'll actually have to talk to each
other, maybe even try and prove a theorem. How quaint.